Analysis on the turning point of dynamic in-plane compressive strength for a plain weave composite

Experimental investigations on dynamic in-plane compressive behavior of a plain weave composite were performed using the split Hopkinson pressure bar. A quantitative criterion for calculating the constant strain rate of composites was established. Then the upper limit of strain rate, restricted by stress equilibrium and constant loading rate, was rationally estimated and confirmed by tests. Within the achievable range of 0.001/s-895/s, it was found that the strength increased first and subsequently decreased as the strain rate increased. This feature was also reflected by the turning point(579/s) of the bilinear model for strength prediction. The transition in failure mechanism, from local opening damage to completely splitting destruction, was mainly responsible for such strain rate effects. And three major failure modes were summarized under microscopic observations: fiber fracture, inter-fiber fracture, and interface delamination. Finally, by introducing a nonlinear damage variable, a simplified ZWT model was developed to characterize the dynamic mechanical response. Excellent agreement was shown between the experimental and simulated results.

Kinetics of the direct reaction between ozone and phenol by high-gravity intensified heterogeneous catalytic ozonation

In this study,high-gravity intensified heterogeneous catalytic ozonation is utilized for treatment of phenol-containing wastewater,and the kinetics of the direct reaction between ozone and phenol in the presence of excess tertiary butanol(TBA)is investigated.It is revealed that the direct reaction between ozone and phenol in the rotating packed bed(RPB)follows the pseudo-first-order kinetics with a reaction rate constant higher than that in the conventional bubbling reactor(BR).Under different conditions of temperature,initial pH,high-gravity factor,and gaseous ozone concentration,the apparent reaction rate constant varies in the range of 0.0160–0.115 min-1.An empirical power-exponential model is established to characterize the effects of these parameters on the direct reaction between ozone and phenol by high-gravity intensified heterogeneous catalytic ozonation.

Different patterns of association between white matter microstructure and plasma unsaturated fatty acids in those with high risk for psychosis and healthy participants

Background Disrupted white matter(WM)microstructure has been commonly identified in youth at clinical high risk(CHR)for psychosis.Several lines of evidence suggest that fatty acids,especially unsaturated fatty acids(UFAs),might play a crucial role in the WM pathology of early onset psychosis.However,evidence linking UFA and WM microstructure in CHR is quite sparse.Aims We investigated the relationship between the plasma UFA level and WM microstructure in CHR participants and healthy controls(HC).Methods Plasma fatty acids were assessed and diffusion tensor imaging(DTI)data were performed with tract-based spatial statistics(TBSS)analysis for 66 individuals at CHR for psychosis and 70 HC.Results Both the global and regional diffusion measures showed significant between-group differences,with decreased fractional anisotropy(FA)but increased mean diffusivity(MD)and radial diffusivity(RD)found in the CHR group compared with the HC group.On top of that,we found that in the HC group,plasma arachidic acid showed obvious trend-level associations with higher global FA,lower global MD and lower global RD,which regionally spread over the corpus callosum,right anterior and superior corona radiata,bilateral anterior and posterior limb of the internal capsule,and bilateral superior longitudinal fasciculus.However,there were no associations between global WM measures and any UFA in the CHR group.Conversely,we even found negative associations between arachidic acid levels and regional FA values in the right superior longitudinal fasciculus and right retrolenticular part of the internal capsule in the CHR group.Conclusions Compared with the HC group,CHR subjects exhibited a different pattern of association between WM microstructure and plasma UFA,with a neuroprotective effect found in the HC group but not in the CHR group.Such discrepancy could be due to the excessively upregulated UFAs accumulated in the plasma of the CHR group,highlighting the role of balanced plasma-membrane fatty acids homeostasis in WM development.

D-BERT: Incorporating dependency-based attention into BERT for relation extraction

Relation extraction between entity pairs is an increasingly critical area in natural language processing.Recently the pre-trained bidirectional encoder representation from transformer(BERT)performs excellendy on the text classification or sequence labelling tasks.Here,the high-level syntactic features that consider the dependency between each word and the target entities into the pre-trained language models are incorporated.Our model also utilizes the intermediate layers of BERT to acquire different levels of semantic information and designs multi-granularity features for final relation classification.Our model offers a momentous improvement over the published methods for the relation extraction on the widely used data sets.

惠州市气温与湿疹门诊人次关联的时间序列研究

目的探讨惠州市气温对湿疹门诊人次的影响。方法从惠州市皮肤病防治所收集2016年1月1日至2019年12月31日湿疹门诊数据, 同期气象因素(日均气温、相对湿度)数据源自广东省气候中心的86个气象站点。采用分布滞后非线性模型评估环境温度暴露对湿疹的滞后效应, 采用自然平滑样条函数控制湿度的非线性混杂。结果惠州市皮肤病防治所4年内共报告湿疹门诊254 053人次, 日均就诊173.89人次。日均气温与湿疹日就诊人次呈"U"型关联。低温段温度每降低1 ℃, 湿疹发病风险上升2.20%(1.19%~3.21%), 高温段温度每升高1 ℃, 湿疹发病风险上升2.35%(1.24%~3.5%)。全人群中有1.60%(0.44%~2.68%)的湿疹门诊次归因于低温天气, 即归因人次为4 065(1 128~6 798);6.33%(1.40%~10.87%)的湿疹门诊人次归因于高温天气, 即归因人次为16 082(3 557~27 616)。结论高温和低温暴露均与湿疹就诊风险增加有关。

Influence of N on precipitation behavior,associated corrosion and mechanical properties of super austenitic stainless steel S32654

The influence of N on the precipitation behavior,associated corrosion,and mechanical properties of S32654 were investigated by microstructural,electrochemical,and mechanical analyses.Increasing the N content results in several alterations:(1) grain refinement,which promotes intergranular precipitation;(2) a linear increase in the driving force for Cr2 N and Mo activity,which accelerates the precipitation of intergranular Cr2 N and π phase,respectively;(3) a linear decrease in the driving force for σ phase and Cr activity,which suppresses the formation of intragranular σ phase.The total amount of precipitates first decreased and then increased with the N content increasing.Furthermore,the intergranular corrosion susceptibility depended substantially on the total amount of precipitates and also first exhibited a decreasing and then an increasing trend as the N content increased.In addition,aging precipitation caused a considerable decrement in the ultimate tensile strength(UTS) and a remarkable increment in the yield strength(YS).Both the UTS and YS always increased with N content increasing throughout the solution and aging process.Whereas the elongation was considerably sensitive to the aging treatment,it exhibited marginal variation with the N content increasing.

High-gravity intensified iron-carbon micro-electrolysis for degradation of dinitrotoluene

The application of iron–carbon(Fe–C)micro-electrolysis to wastewater treatment is limited by the passivation potential of the Fe–C packing.In order to address this problem,high-gravity intensified Fe–C micro-electrolysis was proposed in this study for degradation of dinitrotoluene wastewater in a rotating packed bed(RPB)using commercial Fe–C particles as the packing.The effects of reaction time,high-gravity factor,liquid flow rate and initial solution pH were investigated.The degradation intermediates were determined by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry,and the possible degradation pathways of nitro compounds by Fe–C micro-electrolysis in RPB were also proposed.It is found that under optimal conditions,the removal rate of nitro compounds reaches 68.4%at 100 min.The removal rate is maintained at approximately 68%after 4 cycles in RPB,but it is decreased substantially from 57.9%to 36.8%in a stirred tank reactor.This is because RPB can increase the specific surface area and the renewal of the liquid–solid interface,and as a result the degradation efficiency of Fe–C micro-electrolysis is improved and the active sites on the Fe–C surface can be regenerated for continuous use.In conclusion,high-gravity intensified Fe–C micro-electrolysis can weaken the passivation of Fe–C particles and extend their service life.

Aeromonas sobria regulates proinflammatory immune response in mouse macrophages via activating the MAPK,AKT,and NF-κB pathways

Aeromonas sobria,a Gram-negative bacterium that can colonize both humans and animals,is found in a variety of environments,including water,seafood,meat,and vegetables(Cahill,1990;Galindo et al.,2004;Song et al,2019).Aeromonas spp.are conditionally pathogenic bacteria in aquaculture,which can rapidly proliferate,causing disease and even death in fish,especially when the environment is degraded(Neamat-Allah et al,2020,2021a,2021b).In developing countries,Aeromonas spp.have been associated with a wide spectrum of infections in humans,including gastroen-teritis,wound infections,septicemia,and lung infections(San Joaquin and Pickett,1988;Wang et al,2009;Su et al,2013).Infections caused by Aeromonas spp.are usually more severe in immunocompromised individuals(Miyamoto et al,2017).

Correlation-based software search by leveraging software term database

Internet-scale open source software （OSS） pro- duction in various communities generates abundant reusable resources for software developers. However, finding the de- sired and mature software with keyword queries from a considerable number of candidates, especially for the fresher, is a significant challenge because current search services often fail to understand the semantics of user queries. In this paper, we construct a software term database （STDB） by analyzing tagging data in Stack Overflow and propose a correlationbased software search （CBSS） approach that performs correlation retrieval based on the term relevance obtained from STDB. In addition, we design a novel ranking method to optimize the initial retrieval result. We explore four research questions in four experiments, respectively, to evaluate the effectiveness of the STDB and investigate the performance of the CBSS. The experiment results show that the proposed CBSS can effectively respond to keyword-based software searches and significantly outperforms other existing search services at finding mature software.

When and How to Adjust Non-Pharmacological Interventions Concurrent with Booster Vaccinations Against COVID-19—Guangdong,China,2022

Introduction:With the large-scale roll-out of the coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)booster vaccination effort(a vaccine dose given 6 months after completing primary vaccination)in China,we explore when and how China could lift non-pharmacological interventions(NPIs)against COVID-19 in 2022.Methods:Using a modified susceptible-infectiousrecovered(SIR)mathematical model,we projected the COVID-19 epidemic situation and required medical resources in Guangdong Province,China.Results:If the number of people entering from overseas recovers to 20%of the number in 2019,the epidemic in 2022 could be controlled at a low level by a containment(215 local cases)or suppression strategy(1,397 local cases).A mitigation strategy would lead to 21,722 local cases.A coexistence strategy would lead to a large epidemic with 6,850,083 local cases that would overwhelm Guangdong’s medical system.With 50%or 100%recovery of the 2019 level of travelers from overseas,the epidemic could also be controlled with containment or suppression,but enormous resources,including more hotel rooms for border quarantine,will be required.However,coexistence would lead to an uncontrollable epidemic with 12,922,032 local cases.Discussion:With booster vaccinations,the number of travelers from overseas could increase slightly in 2022,but a suppression strategy would need to be maintained to ensure a controllable epidemic.